FAULTY LOGIC

The Morning CallTHE MORNING CALL

To the Editor:

When in trouble, when in doubt; run in circles, scream and shout! (Old adage).

Last week we heard from another owner of a business where children were able to obtain cigarettes. The plaintive moan that the City Health Office was using improper tactics is akin to the complaint that state police take undue advantage by parking in unobtrusive places (to apprehend speeders). By an extension of that logic, we should outlaw the concealment of watchmen in stores. It's unfair!

One can feel sorry, I suppose, for those who are unable to accept responsibility for their own actions. One would think, however, that they would have the sagacity to stop short of casting aspersions on a publicagency for performing the functions for which we, the public, hire them.